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00:03 BY THE FRIENDS OF THE AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY.
00:14 >>IF THERE ARE ANY WORDS IMPORTANT, 00:15 IT WOULD BE THE WORDS OF GOD ENGRAVEN IN STONE. 00:18 CHRIST WAS THE EMBODIMENT OF THE WORD. 00:20 HIS LIFE WAS OBEDIENCE TO THE LAW OF GOD. 00:28 >>WELCOME ONCE AGAIN TO LANDMARKS OF PROPHECY. 00:31 WE'RE SO THANKFUL THAT YOU'RE HERE. AND TONIGHT WE'RE 00:34 CONTINUING OUR SERIES WITH A VERY IMPORTANT STUDY. 00:36 IT'S THE TOPIC OF THE UNCHANGEABLE LAW . 00:41 WELL, AS WE ALWAYS DO, WE'RE GOING TO USE A BIBLE STORY 00:44 SORT OF AS A SPRINGBOARD INTO THIS SUBJECT. 00:47 IF YOU LOOK INTO YOUR BIBLE IN DANIEL CHAPTER 6, YOU'LL 00:50 RECOGNIZE THE STORY THERE. IT'S ABOUT DANIEL. 00:53 ONE OF THE GREAT STORIES WE OFTEN SAVE FOR THE CHILDREN, 00:56 DANIEL IN THE LION'S DEN. 00:58 YOU SEE, AFTER THE BABYLONIAN KINGDOM FELL TO THE PERSIANS, 01:01 THE NEW PERSIAN KING, DARIUS, WAS SO IMPRESSED WITH DANIEL'S 01:05 ABILITY AND HIS WONDERFUL SPIRIT HE HAD, THAT HE THOUGHT ABOUT 01:10 MAKING HIM THE PRIME MINISTER OF HIS NEW KINGDOM. WELL, YOU CAN 01:15 IMAGINE THAT DIDN'T GO OVER VERY WELL WITH THE OTHER MEMBERS OF 01:19 DARIUS' CABINET BECAUSE DANIEL WAS A FORMER SERVANT OF 01:22 NEBUCHADNEZZAR. THAT WAS THE ENEMY. 01:25 DANIEL WAS A FORMER CAPTIVE FROM AMONG THE ISRAELITES. 01:28 WHY WOULD THE KING WANT TO PROMOTE SOMEBODY WHO WAS BOTH 01:32 A FOREIGNER AND A MEMBER OF THE FORMER KINGDOM TO BE 01:35 THE NEW PRIME MINISTER? SO THEY CAME UP WITH A PLOT. 01:38 THEY WENT TO KING DARIUS AND THEY SAID, 'YOUR HIGHNESS, 01:42 IT'S A NEW KINGDOM. WE'VE CONQUERED SEVERAL OTHER 01:44 EMPIRES; IN ORDER TO GET EVERYONE TOGETHER - THE BEST WAY 01:46 TO DO THAT IS THROUGH COMMON WORSHIP.' THAT'S TRUE, THE DEVIL 01:51 OFTEN DOES THAT. WHEN YOU CAN'T GET PEOPLE TO 01:54 JOIN TOGETHER BECAUSE OF COMMON LANGUAGE OR COMMON CULTURE, 01:59 COMMON RELIGION IS OFTEN THE BEST WAY TO DO IT. 02:03 AND SO, THEY SAID, 'IF YOU MAKE A LAW - IT DOESN'T HAVE TO LAST 02:07 LONG, JUST 30 DAYS - THAT NOBODY WORSHIPS ANY GOD EXCEPT FOR YOU, 02:12 THAT'LL SOLIDIFY THE KINGDOM.' YOU CAN READ IN DANIEL 6:8, 02:17 HE SIGNED THE DECREE - YOU CAN'T PRAY TO ANY GOD OR MAN FOR 30 02:21 DAYS AND, BY THE WAY, THERE'S A PENALTY IF YOU BREAK IT: YOU GO 02:24 TO THE LION'S DEN.' BUT THE KING NEVER DREAMED ANYBODY WOULD 02:27 BREAK IT AND HE DIDN'T REALIZE WHAT THEY WERE UP TO, 02:30 SO HE SIGNED IT. AND IT SAYS, 'ACCORDING TO 02:32 THE LAW OF THE MEDES AND THE PERSIANS WHICH DOES NOT ALTER.' 02:36 ONCE YOU SIGN THE KING'S LAW, YOU CAN'T CHANGE IT. 02:40 SO, THE BIBLE - HERE'S ONE OF THE GREAT VERSES IN THE BIBLE: 02:45 DANIEL 6, VERSE 10, "NOW WHEN DANIEL KNEW THAT THE WRITING WAS 02:48 SIGNED, HE WENT INTO HIS HOUSE; AND HIS WINDOWS BEING OPEN IN 02:51 HIS CHAMBER TOWARD JERUSALEM, HE KNEELED UPON HIS KNEES THREE 02:56 TIMES A DAY, AND PRAYED, AND GAVE THANKS BEFORE HIS GOD," - 03:02 DID DANIEL KNOW WHAT THE PENALTY WAS FOR THIS LAW? 03:04 IT SAYS HE KNEW ABOUT IT AND HE'S STILL THANKING GOD. 03:06 HE DID NOTHING TO HIDE HIS LIGHT UNDER A BUSH. 03:10 BUT HE THOUGHT, 'I'M NOT GOING TO HIDE MY FAITH FROM ANYBODY.' 03:13 AND SO HE OPENED HIS WINDOWS. 03:16 WELL, SOON THESE ENEMIES, 03:18 THEY WENT TO THE KING AND THEY SAID, 03:20 'YOU KNOW THAT LAW THAT YOU SIGNED?' 03:22 THE KING SAID, 'YEP, LAW OF THE MEDES AND THE PERSIANS - IT 03:24 CANNOT CHANGE.' THEY SAID, 'WELL, THERE'S SOMEONE IN YOUR 03:26 KINGDOM THAT JUST DOESN'T CARE ABOUT YOUR LAW, IT'S DANIEL. 03:29 HE'S PRAYING THREE TIMES A DAY.' KING DARIUS SAID, 'OH NO!' 03:36 THE BIBLE SAYS HE LABORED TIL THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN TO 03:39 DELIVER DANIEL BUT HE COULDN'T BECAUSE HE COULDN'T CHANGE HIS 03:42 OWN LAW. SO RIGHT ABOUT THE GOING DOWN OF 03:45 THE SUN, HE HAD DANIEL BROUGHT TO THE LION'S DEN. DANIEL SAID 03:50 - THE KING SPOKE TO DANIEL AND HE PUT HIM IN THE LION'S 03:53 DEN AND HE SAID, 'I KNOW THAT YOUR GOD THAT YOU SERVE 03:55 CONTINUALLY, HE WILL DELIVER YOU.' AND THEY PUT A STONE OVER 04:00 THE LION'S DEN AND THEY SEALED IT WITH A GOVERNMENT SEAL. 04:04 AND THEN THE NEXT DAY IT TELLS US THAT EARLY IN THE MORNING, 04:08 THE KING CAME TO THE TOMB AND HE SAID - THEY ROLLED AWAY THE 04:14 STONE - 'DANIEL, HAS YOUR GOD THAT YOU SERVE CONTINUALLY BEEN 04:16 ABLE TO DELIVER YOU FROM THE LIONS?' 04:19 AND DANIEL SAID, 'MY GOD HAS SENT HIS ANGEL AND SHUT 04:22 THE LIONS' MOUTHS.' AND NO FORM OF HARM OR HURT WAS ON DANIEL, 04:26 THE BIBLE SAYS, BECAUSE HE BELIEVED IN HIS GOD. 04:29 WELL, HE HAD AN INTERESTING WAY OF BELIEVING - HE SHOWED HIS 04:32 BELIEF, DIDN'T HE? THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS - HE BELIEVED IN GOD. 04:35 NOW THIS STORY TELLS US THAT DANIEL SAID THERE ARE TEN 04:39 COMMANDMENTS AND ONE COMMANDMENT SAYS, 'THOU SHALT NOT HAVE OTHER 04:42 GODS BEFORE ME' - NOT EVEN KING DARIUS. NOT EVEN FOR 30 DAYS. 04:47 AND HE WAS WILLING TO DIE RATHER THAN DISOBEY. WHAT KIND OF FAITH 04:54 AND DETERMINATION DO GOD'S PEOPLE NEED IN THE LAST DAYS? 04:57 IS THERE GOING TO BE A LAW THAT SAYS 'HE WHO DOES NOT WORSHIP 05:00 THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE SHOULD BE KILLED? FIRST THEY CAN'T 05:03 BUY OR SELL, BUT ULTIMATELY IT SAYS THEY SHOULD BE KILLED. 05:06 AND WORSHIPING THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE IS GOING TO REQUIRE 05:09 BREAKING ONE OF GOD'S COMMANDMENTS. 05:11 DO YOU LOVE THE LORD AND HIS WORD SO MUCH THAT YOU WOULD 05:14 RATHER DIE - RATHER GO HUNGRY - THAN DISOBEY? 05:19 THIS IS A TEST THAT WE NEED TO KNOW THAT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 05:23 ARE NOT MULTIPLE CHOICE AND THAT'S OUR SUBJECT. 05:27 NUMBER 1: CAN GOD'S MORAL LAW BE AMENDED OR REPEALED? 05:34 ANSWER: JESUS TELLS US IN LUKE 16, VERSE 17 - HE SAYS, 05:39 "IT IS EASIER FOR HEAVEN AND EARTH TO" - WHAT? 05:42 >>PASS AWAY. 05:44 >>"PASS AWAY THAN FOR ONE TITTLE OF THE LAW TO FAIL." 05:47 THAT'S A HEBREW TERM - IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE LITTLE 05:50 CROSSING OF A 'T' - IT'S EVEN SMALLER THAN THE CROSSING OF A 05:52 'T' - EVEN THE SLIGHTEST THING - A JOT OR A TITTLE IS LIKE A 05:55 LITTLE PERIOD OR A LITTLE CROSSING OF A 'T' - IT SAYS 05:58 HEAVEN AND EARTH WILL PASS AWAY BEFORE EVEN THAT MUCH OF THE LAW 06:01 PASSES AWAY. YOU CAN ALSO READ IN PSALM 89, 06:06 VERSE 34, GOD SAYS, "MY COVENANT I WILL NOT BREAK, NOR ALTER THE 06:15 WORD THAT HAS GONE OUT OF MY LIPS." 06:17 GOD IS NOT GOING TO 06:18 BREAK HIS COVENANT. IT'S FOREVER AND EVER. 06:22 AND THEN YOU HAVE ONE MORE IN PSALM 111, VERSES 7 AND 8, 06:27 "ALL HIS PRECEPTS ARE SURE. THEY STAND FAST FOREVER AND EVER." 06:35 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS DID NOT SUDDENLY APPEAR IN EXODUS. 06:39 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS HAVE ALWAYS EXISTED BECAUSE THEY ARE A 06:43 REFLECTION OF GOD'S NATURE. HOW DO I KNOW THAT? WHEN THE WOMAN - 06:48 POTIPHAR'S WIFE - TEMPTED JOSEPH TO COMMIT ADULTERY IN THE 06:52 BOOK OF GENESIS, JOSEPH SAID, 'I CAN'T DO THAT. IT'S A SIN.' 06:57 DID THEY KNOW, EVEN IN GENESIS, THAT ADULTERY WAS A SIN? 07:00 WHEN CAIN KILLED ABEL, GOD TOLD HIM, 'SIN LIES AT YOUR DOOR.' 07:08 AND SIN IS THE BREAKING OF GOD'S LAW. 07:09 WAS MURDER A SIN EVEN IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN? 07:12 OR DID MURDER - MURDER WASN'T A SIN UNTIL GOD WROTE IT DOWN 07:15 AT MOUNT SINAI? OF COURSE IT WAS. 07:18 WAS IT WRONG TO LIE ALL THE WAY FROM THE BEGINNING? 07:21 AND SO, SEE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS GO ALL THE WAY BACK. 07:24 GOD SIMPLY CODIFIED IT SO THAT THEY WOULD ALL KNOW - VERY 07:26 CLEAR, NO MISUNDERSTANDING, APPROXIMATELY 300 WORDS - 07:30 THIS IS MY PERFECT WILL. THAT LAW IS COMPREHENSIVE FOR 07:34 ALL MAN - IT'S NOT FOR ONE NATION, IT'S FOR PEOPLE 07:37 EVERYWHERE. WHEN YOU DO AWAY WITH THE LAW OF 07:40 GOD, YOU'RE DOING AWAY WITH THE NATURE OF GOD. 07:43 NOW, IF YOU LOOK IN YOUR LESSON YOU'LL SEE, FOR INSTANCE, 07:45 THE BIBLE SAYS, 'GOD IS GOOD.' DO YOU KNOW THE BIBLE SAYS ALSO, 07:51 'THE LAW IS GOOD'? THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT GOD IS HOLY. 07:55 THE BIBLE ALSO SAYS THAT THE LAW IS HOLY. 07:59 YOU CAN READ WHERE IT SAYS GOD IS RIGHTEOUS, GOD IS TRUTH, GOD 08:03 IS PURE, GOD IS SPIRITUAL, GOD IS UNCHANGEABLE, GOD IS ETERNAL. 08:06 THESE ARE ALSO ALL THE SAME CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LAW SO 08:11 WE'VE GOT TO BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT TRYING TO DO AWAY WITH THE 08:13 LAW BECAUSE IT REPRESENTS THE VERY NATURE OF GOD. 08:18 JESUS WAS THE WORD BECAME FLESH. CHRIST SAID, 'HE THAT HEARS 08:23 THESE WORDS OF MINE IS BUILDING ON A' - WHAT? 08:26 - WISE MAN BUILDING ON... >>THE ROCK. 08:28 >>THE ROCK. WHAT WERE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 08:30 WRITTEN ON? IF THERE ARE ANY WORDS 08:32 IMPORTANT, IT WOULD BE THE WORDS OF GOD ENGRAVEN IN STONE. 08:35 CHRIST WAS THE EMBODIMENT OF THE WORD. 08:37 HIS LIFE WAS OBEDIENCE TO THE LAW OF GOD. 08:42 AND THEN, AS CHRISTIANS, HE SAYS, 'FOLLOW ME.' NOW, 08:46 ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE, WHAT IS SIN? 08:50 I MEAN, JESUS CAME TO SAVE US FROM SIN. 08:53 WHAT IS IT THAT HE'S SAVING US FROM? 08:55 1 JOHN 3, VERSE 4 - THE BIBLE SAYS, "SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION 09:02 OF" - WHAT? OF THE LAW. SIN IS - IT'S LIKE A DICTIONARY 09:05 DEFINITION: 'SIN IS THE BREAKING OF - OR THE TRANSGRESSION OF - 09:09 THE LAW.' ROMANS 3:20 SAID, "BY THE LAW IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF 09:15 SIN." WE DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT SIN IS 09:18 EXCEPT BY THE LAW. GOD'S LAW REVEALS WHAT SIN IS. 09:21 NOW, THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW, THOUGH, AND THIS IS A VERY 09:25 IMPORTANT POINT I WANT TO EMPHASIZE, IS NOT TO SAVE US. 09:28 THE BIBLE SAYS THAT THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW IS TO SIMPLY SHOW US 09:31 OUR NEED OF SALVATION. NOW I'M GOING TO JUST ILLUSTRATE THIS. 09:35 NOW I JUST DID SOMETHING TO CHANGE MY APPEARANCE. 09:39 I DON'T SEE ANYTHING DIFFERENT. YOU SEE SOMETHING DIFFERENT. 09:46 WOULD IT DISTRACT YOU IF I WENT THROUGH THE REST OF THE PROGRAM 09:48 LIKE THIS? IT WOULD. SO WHAT DO I NEED? 09:53 AH, HOW CONVENIENT. SO I FEEL FINE. 09:59 I DON'T SEE THAT THERE'S A PROBLEM. 10:00 I LOOK IN THIS DEVICE AND I GO, 'EW!' 10:02 IT REALLY IS THE FIRST TIME I LOOKED. 10:04 THAT'S KIND OF EMBARRASSING. 10:06 SO SINCE THE MIRROR SHOWED ME I'VE GOT A PROBLEM, IT OBVIOUSLY 10:11 SHOULD BE THE MEANS OF REMOVING THE PROBLEM, RIGHT? 10:14 SO IF I JUST WHACK MYSELF IN THE HEAD WITH THE MIRROR IT'LL ALL 10:17 GO AWAY. WOULD THAT FIX IT? IF I RUB THE MIRROR ON THE MARK 10:21 OR THE TAPE, WILL THAT TAKE IT AWAY? 10:24 THIS SHOWS US THE PROBLEM, BUT IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO TAKE THE 10:27 PROBLEM AWAY. YOU ARE NOT SAVED BY KEEPING THE 10:30 LAW, THE LAW DOESN'T SAVE YOU FROM ANYTHING. 10:31 THE LAW IS THERE TO SHOW US OUR NEED OF SALVATION. BUT THEN, 10:35 IF I TAKE THIS AND USE THE BLOOD, IT TAKES AWAY THE SIN. 10:39 NOW THE REASON I MENTION THIS - IT SAYS IN THE BOOK OF JAMES, 10:43 'WHOEVER LOOKS INTO THE PERFECT LAW THAT GIVES LIBERTY AND 10:46 CONTINUES THEREIN, BEING NOT JUST A HEARER BUT A DOER OF THE 10:50 WORD, THIS MAN WILL BE BLESSED.' THE LAW OF GOD IS COMPARED TO A 10:53 MIRROR. IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO TAKE AWAY 10:57 OUR SIN, IT'S SUPPOSED TO SHOW US OUR NEED. 10:59 THEN YOU GO TO JESUS FOR CLEANSING. 11:00 BUT, IF IT'S NOT A SIN TO BREAK THE LAW - IF THERE'S NO LAW, 11:07 THERE'S NO SIN, RIGHT? THE BIBLE SAYS, 'WHERE THERE IS 11:10 NO LAW THERE IS NO TRANSGRESSION.' THAT'S WHAT PAUL 11:13 SAID, 'WHERE THERE IS NO LAW, THERE'S NO TRANSGRESSION.' SO IF 11:15 THERE IS NO LAW THERE'S NO TRANSGRESSION. 11:18 IF THERE'S NO SIN, THEN WHO NEEDS A SAVIOR? 11:21 CAN YOU SEE WHY THE DEVIL WOULD BE ATTACKING THE LAW? 11:25 BECAUSE IF THERE'S NO LAW THEN THERE'S NO SIN. 11:28 IF THERE'S NO SIN YOU DON'T NEED JESUS. 11:29 AND SO, THAT'S THE LOGIC BEHIND IT. 11:32 NUMBER 3: TO WHAT LAW IS JOHN REFERRING? 11:36 PAUL TELLS US IN ROMANS CHAPTER 7, VERSE 7 - HE SAID, 'I HAD NOT 11:41 KNOWN SIN BUT BY THE LAW. FOR I HAD NOT KNOWN LUST EXCEPT 11:46 THE LAW HAD SAID, 'THOU SHALT NOT COVET.' HERE HE IS QUOTING 11:50 FROM THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, ISN'T HE? 11:52 HE'S SAYING, 'I BECOME AWARE OF WHAT MY SIN IS 11:56 BY LOOKING AT THE LAW.' 11:58 >>DON'T GO ANYWHERE, FRIENDS. IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS WE'LL 12:00 RETURN AND COMPLETE THIS PRESENTATION. 12:03 YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE BIG DEBATES IN THE CHRISTIAN WORLD TODAY HAS 12:06 TO DO WITH 'HOW DOES A CHRISTIAN RELATE TO THE LAW OF GOD?' 12:10 NOW, CLEARLY, SOME THINGS WERE NAILED TO THE CROSS AND A 12:12 CHRISTIAN DOES NOT NEED TO KEEP THE OLD COVENANT. 12:15 BUT WHAT ABOUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 12:17 AFTER ALL, THEY'RE NOT CALLED 'THE TEN RECOMMENDATIONS' OR 12:20 'THE TEN SUGGESTIONS' OR 'GOD'S TEN GOOD IDEAS.' WE HAVE A 12:24 SPECIAL LESSON WE'D LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU AND IT'S CALLED 12:27 WRITTEN IN STONE . EVEN IN THE TITLE YOU CAN 12:30 UNDERSTAND THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WERE WRITTEN BY THE FINGER OF 12:33 GOD IN STONE SO, OBVIOUSLY, THIS IS IMPORTANT. 12:36 IF YOU'D LIKE TO UNDERSTAND THIS SUBJECT AND MUCH MORE RELATED 12:38 TO IT, THEN MAKE SURE AND SEND FOR THIS FREE OFFER 12:41 AND YOU'LL BE BLESSED. 12:43 TO GET YOUR FREE COPY, CALL THE PHONE NUMBER ON YOUR 12:45 SCREEN AND ASK FOR OFFER #111. AND, AFTER YOU READ THIS 12:49 INCREDIBLE RESOURCE, MAKE SURE AND SHARE IT WITH A FRIEND. 12:52 LET'S GET BACK NOW TO TODAY'S PRESENTATION AND LEARN SOME 12:55 MORE AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE WORD OF GOD. 12:59 DID JESUS KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 13:02 JOHN 15, VERSE 10 HE SAID, "I HAVE" - WHAT? - "I HAVE KEPT 13:08 MY FATHER'S COMMANDMENTS AND ABIDE IN HIS LOVE." 13:12 WE'VE GOT TO HAVE - 'THY WORD I HAVE HIDDEN IN MY HEART THAT 13:17 I MIGHT NOT SIN.' WE NEED TO HAVE THE LAW OF GOD 13:19 IN OUR HEADS AND IN OUR HEARTS OR WE'RE GOING TO GET MIXED UP 13:22 IN THIS CULTURE, AMEN? >>AMEN. 13:23 >>NUMBER 5: WHAT IS THE PUNISHMENT FOR LIVING A LIFE 13:27 OF SIN? ROMANS 6:23, "FOR THE WAGES 13:30 OF SIN IS DEATH." PRETTY SERIOUS. 13:33 SIN IS A DEADLY, CONTAGIOUS DISEASE AND GOD HAS TO USE 13:36 DRASTIC MEASURES. WE'VE SEEN IN THE NEWS LATELY 13:40 WHAT HAPPENED WHEN SOMEONE EVEN THOUGHT SOMEONE ELSE MIGHT HAVE 13:43 EBOLA BECAUSE IT'S A DEADLY DISEASE - ROUGHLY 50 TO 13:47 60 PERCENT, DEPENDING ON WHAT COUNTRY YOU'RE IN WHEN YOU GET 13:50 IT - THAT THEY QUICKLY QUARANTINE PEOPLE. 13:52 WELL, SIN IS EVEN MORE DEADLY THAN EBOLA. 13:54 AND SO GOD SAYS, 'WE CAN'T ALLOW IT TO SPREAD THROUGH THE 13:56 UNIVERSE. THE PENALTY IS DEATH. UNLESS WE GET A TRANSFUSION 14:00 OF THE BLOOD OF JESUS, WE'RE IN TROUBLE. 14:03 SOME SAY THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE NOT BINDING FOR 14:06 NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIANS. WHAT DOES JESUS SAY ABOUT THIS? 14:10 MATTHEW 19, VERSE 17 - HE SAID, "BUT IF YOU WILL ENTER INTO 14:15 LIFE, KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS." WELL OBVIOUSLY, FOR A STARTING 14:20 POINT, HE WOULD BE TALKING ABOUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 14:24 YOU CAN READ IN JOHN 14, VERSE 15, JESUS SAID, "IF YOU LOVE ME 14:29 KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS." A LOT OF PASTORS SAY TODAY, 14:35 'WE DON'T HAVE TO KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ANYMORE BECAUSE 14:37 JESUS FULFILLED THE LAW.' WELL, WHAT DOES 'FULFILL' MEAN? 14:41 WHEN CHRIST CAME TO JOHN THE BAPTIST TO BE BAPTIZED, JOHN 14:44 SAID TO JESUS, 'NO, YOU NEED TO BAPTIZE ME BECAUSE YOU'RE THE 14:50 MESSIAH.' JESUS SAID, 'NO, JOHN, ALLOW IT TO BE THIS WAY NOW 14:53 FOR THUS IT BECOMES US TO FULFILL ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS.' 14:57 SO WHEN JESUS SAID, 'FULFILL ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS,' 14:59 DOES THAT MEAN DO AWAY WITH ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS? 15:02 SOME PEOPLE READ THAT VERSE: 'THINK NOT THAT I'VE COME TO 15:05 DESTROY THE LAW.' THEY CHANGE IT WHERE JESUS SAYS 'THINK NOT THAT 15:09 I'VE COME TO DESTROY THE LAW, I'VE ACTUALLY COME TO DO AWAY 15:11 WITH IT.' THAT WOULDN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. 15:13 HE OBVIOUSLY WANTS US TO KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 15:17 HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS? 15:19 NOW, SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW. 15:23 I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I AM TEMPTED EVERY DAY. 15:26 AM I ALONE? EVERY DAY I HAVE OPPORTUNITIES 15:29 TO DO THE WRONG THING. AND EVERY DAY I HAVE 15:32 OPPORTUNITIES TO FOLLOW JESUS AND MAKE THE RIGHT DECISIONS. 15:35 IS IT POSSIBLE FOR US TO DO WHAT GOD ASKS US TO DO? 15:40 ROMANS 8, VERSE 3 - GOD, SENDING HIS OWN SON, IN THE LIKENESS OF 15:47 SINFUL FLESH, CONDEMNED SIN IN THE FLESH THAT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS 15:52 OF THE LAW MIGHT BE FULFILLED IN US WHICH WALK NOT AFTER THE 15:57 FLESH BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT. IT IS POSSIBLE. 16:00 PHILIPPIANS 1, VERSE 6, "HE WHO HAS BEGUN A GOOD WORK IN YOU 16:05 WILL COMPLETE IT UNTIL THE DAY OF JESUS CHRIST." YOU KNOW, 16:10 A FEW YEARS AGO, MATTER OF FACT, JOHN LOMACANG WAS WITH ME. 16:14 WE WERE DOING A DEBATE - A FRIENDLY DEBATE ON TELEVISION 16:17 WITH JOHN AND I AND TWO OTHER MINISTERS AND THE SUBJECT OF THE 16:21 DEBATE WAS THE LAW OF GOD AND THE MINISTERS WERE SAYING 16:26 THAT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WAS PART OF THE OLD COVENANT AND 16:29 NOBODY COULD REALLY KEEP THE LAW AND GOD DIDN'T EXPECT US TO. 16:33 AND SO I ASKED, 'CAN THE DEVIL TEMPT US TO SIN?' 16:39 THEY SAID, 'WELL, OF COURSE.' AND I SAID, 'SO YOU BELIEVE THE 16:42 DEVIL HAS THE POWER TO GET US TO SIN, BUT YOU DON'T BELIEVE THAT 16:46 GOD HAS THE POWER TO KEEP US FROM SIN? 16:48 SO IN EFFECT, YOU'RE SAYING YOUR DEVIL'S MORE POWERFUL THAN YOUR 16:52 GOD.' ISN'T THAT WHAT - I MEAN, THAT'S WHERE THAT GOES. 16:55 HOW MUCH CAN I DO THROUGH CHRIST? 16:58 WITHOUT HIM HOW MUCH CAN WE DO? NOTHING. 17:01 THROUGH CHRIST, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE. 17:03 WHAT IS THE OLD COVENANT AND WHY DID IT FAIL? 17:06 ALRIGHT, FIRST LET'S LOOK AND FIND OUT WHAT THAT WAS. 17:08 YOU GO TO DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 4, VERSE 13 AND YOU'LL FIND THE OLD 17:12 COVENANT MENTIONED THERE. "SO HE DECLARED TO YOU HIS 17:16 COVENANT WHICH HE COMMANDED YOU TO PERFORM, EVEN" - HOW MANY? 17:22 >>TEN. >>"TEN COMMANDMENTS; AND HE 17:24 WROTE THEM ON TWO TABLETS OF STONE." 17:26 AND SO IT TELLS US THAT THE OLD COVENANT WAS THE TEN 17:29 COMMANDMENTS WRITTEN ON THESE TWO TABLES OF STONE - 17:32 WRITTEN BY THE FINGER OF GOD. 17:34 NOW, RIGHT AFTER THE LORD MADE THE COVENANT WITH THE PEOPLE - 17:38 YOU KNOW WHAT A COVENANT IS - IT'S AN AGREEMENT. 17:39 GOD SPOKE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, THERE IN EXODUS 20. 17:42 MOSES LATER BRINGS DOWN THE WRITTEN COPY, BUT WHILE HE'S UP 17:46 ON THE HILL GETTING THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, WHAT DO THE 17:48 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DO? AND SO THE BIBLE SAYS IN HEBREWS 17:52 8, VERSE 8, "BECAUSE FINDING FAULT WITH THEM." 17:57 NOW WAS THE FAULT OF THE OLD COVENANT WITH THE COVENANT AND 18:00 THE LAW OR WAS IT WITH THE PEOPLE WHO MADE A PROMISE? 18:03 YOU SEE, THE NEW COVENANT IS BASED ON BETTER PROMISES. 18:07 THE OLD COVENANT WAS BASED ON THE PROMISE OF THE PEOPLE. 18:10 'ALL THE LORD HAS SAID, WE WILL DO IT.' THE NEW COVENANT IS 18:13 BASED ON THE PROMISE OF THE LORD. 18:15 IT SAYS, IN HEBREWS 8, VERSE 10, "FOR THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I 18:21 WILL MAKE WITH (THEM) SAYS THE LORD: I WILL PUT MY LAWS 18:26 IN THEIR MINDS AND WRITE THEM ON THEIR HEARTS." 18:30 INHERENT IN EVERY COMMAND OF GOD IS BUILT THE POWER TO PERFORM 18:35 WHAT HE'S ASKING. THAT IS A SIMPLE - IF GOD SAYS, 18:38 'I WANT YOU TO WALK ACROSS THAT OCEAN THERE.' DON'T ARGUE. 18:41 YOU'LL EITHER WALK ON WATER LIKE PETER OR HE'LL PART THE OCEAN. 18:44 I MEAN, WHEN GOD ASKS YOU TO DO SOMETHING, YOU DO IT. 18:47 AND THAT'S CALLED OBEDIENCE AND WE'RE LIVING IN AN AGE WHERE, 18:52 EVEN IN SOME CHURCHES, THEY'RE ACTING LIKE OBEDIENCE IS 18:55 LEGALISM. OBEDIENCE IS NOT LEGALISM. THE DEVIL IS TRYING TO 18:59 INTIMIDATE CHRISTIANS. AS SOON AS YOU TALK ABOUT THE 19:02 LAW, YOU KNOW WHAT YOU GET CALLED? 19:04 A DIRTY WORD AMONG CHRISTIANS - LEGALIST, PHARISEE - AND SO WHAT 19:08 HAPPENED IS PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH HAVE BEEN SO INTIMIDATED BY 19:11 THOSE TERMS, THE PENDULUM HAS SWUNG TO THE OTHER SIDE AND NOW 19:13 EVERYBODY IS SO AFRAID TO BE ACCUSED OF BEING A PHARISEE OR 19:16 LEGALIST, NOBODY TALKS ABOUT THE LAW. JESUS DID. 19:20 DOESN'T LIVING UNDER GRACE BY FAITH MAKE KEEPING GOD'S LAW 19:24 NON-ESSENTIAL? ROMANS 6:15, "WHAT THEN? 19:29 SHALL WE SIN BECAUSE WE ARE NOT UNDER LAW BUT UNDER GRACE?" 19:32 - WHAT DOES HE SAY? >>CERTAINLY NOT! 19:33 >>"GOD FORBID!" AND AGAIN, IN ROMANS 3, VERSE 19:37 31, "DO WE THEN MAKE VOID THE LAW THROUGH FAITH?" 19:40 - AGAIN, HE USES THAT PHRASE - "GOD FORBID! 19:43 YEA, WE ESTABLISH THE LAW." 19:45 PAUL SAYS, IN ROMANS CHAPTER 2:13 - "IT'S NOT THE HEARERS OF 19:49 THE LAW THAT WILL BE JUST BEFORE GOD, BUT THE DOERS OF THE LAW 19:51 WILL BE JUSTIFIED." THAT'S WHAT PAUL SAID. 19:54 ARE PEOPLE SAVED BY KEEPING THE LAW? REMEMBER MY ILLUSTRATION? 19:58 IS ANYONE SAVED BY KEEPING THE LAW? NO. 20:01 EPHESIANS 2, VERSES 8 AND 9, IT SAYS VERY CLEARLY, "FOR BY GRACE 20:07 ARE WE SAVED THROUGH FAITH AND THAT NOT OF YOURSELVES; IT IS 20:11 THE GIFT OF GOD, NOT OF WORKS, LEST ANYONE SHOULD BOAST." 20:15 WE'RE NOT SAVED BY OUR OBEDIENCE, BUT IF WE LOVE THE 20:19 LORD WE'LL WANT TO OBEY HIM. YOU KNOW, IF YOU GO TO THE BILLY 20:22 GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION WEBSITE, HE ANSWERS QUESTIONS 20:25 THERE. I JUST COPIED THIS OFF THE 20:26 WEBSITE BECAUSE DR. GRAHAM STILL HAS THIS RIGHT. 20:29 QUESTION: DOES GOD EXPECT US TO KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 20:33 ANSWER: THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE JUST AS VALID TODAY AS WHEN GOD 20:38 GAVE THEM TO MOSES OVER THREE THOUSAND YEARS AGO. 20:41 JESUS SAID, 'I TELL YOU THE TRUTH, UNTIL HEAVEN AND EARTH 20:44 DISAPPEAR, NOT THE SMALLEST LETTER, NOT THE LEAST STROKE OF 20:47 THE PEN, WILL BY ANY MEANS DISAPPEAR FROM THE LAW." 20:50 AND HE'S GOT A NUMBER OF OTHER STATEMENTS LIKE THAT. 20:54 THERE'S NOT A LOT OF PREACHERS THAT ARE STILL SAYING THAT. 20:57 THEY'RE ALL SAYING, 'WE'RE NOT UNDER THE LAW.' AND THAT IS A 21:00 REALLY STRANGE THING BECAUSE IT MAKES IT SOUND LIKE SIN IS BEING 21:03 ENDORSED. ARE THERE SOME OLD TESTAMENT 21:06 LAWS NO LONGER BINDING UPON NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIANS? 21:10 YES. AND IT TELLS YOU WHICH ONES THEY ARE. 21:13 YOU CAN READ IN EPHESIANS 2:15, "HAVING ABOLISHED...THE LAW 21:16 OF COMMANDMENTS CONTAINED IN ORDINANCES." 21:20 AND IT EXPLAINS WHAT THESE THINGS ARE. 21:23 THIS IS TALKING ABOUT YOUR, LIKE, YOUR YEARLY SABBATHS, MEAT 21:26 OFFERINGS, DRINK OFFERINGS - IT'S TALKING ABOUT THINGS LIKE 21:30 THE PASSOVER CEREMONY, CIRCUMCISION - THESE ARE ALL 21:33 CEREMONIAL LAWS. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE OF 21:36 AN ETERNAL NATURE. NOW DON'T FORGET THIS: 21:38 TEN COMMANDMENTS, WRITTEN BY GOD'S FINGER. 21:41 CEREMONIAL LAW, WRITTEN BY MOSES. 21:44 TEN COMMANDMENTS, SPOKEN BY GOD'S VOICE. 21:46 CEREMONIAL LAW, SPOKEN BY MOSES OR THE VOICE OF OTHER JUDGES. 21:50 THEY ARE TWO COMPLETELY DISTINCT - OR SEPARATE - LAWS. 21:54 AND SO THE LAWS THAT WERE NAILED TO THE CROSS WERE THE 21:56 CEREMONIAL LAWS, NOT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 21:59 WHAT ARE SOME OF THE GLORIOUS REWARDS OF KEEPING GOD'S LAW? 22:04 PROVERBS 29, VERSE 18 - THIS IS AS SIMPLE AS IT GETS. 22:09 HOW CAN YOU MISUNDERSTAND THIS ONE? 22:11 HE THAT KEEPS THE LAW, HAPPY IS HE." 22:15 ANYONE HERE WANT TO BE HAPPY? >>AMEN. 22:17 >>THE BIBLE SAYS THERE'S JOY, THERE'S BLESSING, THERE'S 22:21 HAPPINESS, THERE'S ABUNDANCE. THIS DOESN'T COME FROM 22:24 DISOBEDIENCE, IT COMES FROM TRUSTING THE LORD AND OBEYING 22:27 HIM. AND THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO DO. 22:30 THAT'S WHERE I WANT TO BE. FURTHERMORE, PSALM 119, 22:34 VERSE 165, NOT ANY KIND OF PEACE, BUT WHAT KIND OF PEACE? 22:37 >>GREAT. >>"GREAT PEACE HAVE THEY THAT 22:40 LOVE THY LAW. NOTHING WILL OFFEND THEM." 22:43 DON'T YOU WANT TO HAVE THAT KIND OF PEACE? 22:46 WHEN YOU SAY - AND YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE STRUGGLING, AS WE ALL DO, 22:48 YOU JUST TELL THE LORD, 'LORD, I WANT TO OBEY YOU. 22:52 I WANT TO BE YOUR CHILD. I WANT TO BE WILLING TO DO YOUR WILL. 22:55 YOU KNOW, GOD SENDS THIS MESSAGE TO US BECAUSE HE WANTS TO SAVE 22:59 US, BUT HE CAN'T FORCE US. BACK IN 1995, A YOUNG MAN DID 23:06 SOMETHING AWFUL - JUST IMMATURE JEALOUSY. 23:11 THERE WERE A COUPLE THAT WERE PARKED OUT IN AN ISOLATED SPOT 23:14 IN A CAR AND, I GUESS, THIS YOUNG MAN, ALLEN - ANDREW ALLEN 23:21 COOK - FELT JILTED BUT HE SHOT TO DEATH THESE YOUNG COLLEGE 23:27 STUDENTS AND - THE GIRL - AND NOBODY KNEW WHAT HAPPENED. 23:31 IT WAS A MYSTERY. THE FBI GOT INVOLVED. 23:34 THEY COULDN'T FIGURE OUT WHO DID IT OR WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE. 23:36 BUT AT ONE POINT, THE BUREAU - THE BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION IN 23:42 GEORGIA - BEGAN TO ASK SOME QUESTIONS AND THEY CALLED A GUY 23:46 NAMED JOHN COOK AND THEY SAID, 'COULD YOU HAVE YOUR SON ANDREW 23:49 GIVE US A CALL? WE WANT TO ASK HIM SOME 23:51 QUESTIONS AND SEE IF HE KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT THAT MURDER THAT 23:53 TOOK PLACE.' AND SO JOHN CALLED HIS SON. 23:56 HE SAID, 'ANDREW,' HE SAYS, 'THEY'RE - THE BUREAU OF 23:59 INVESTIGATION IN GEORGIA IS WANTING TO ASK YOU SOME 24:02 QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT MURDER AND' - HE SAID, 'YEAH, DAD, I DID 24:06 IT.' NOW I DIDN'T TELL YOU THAT HIS FATHER WAS AN FBI AGENT. 24:12 THEY HAD NO EVIDENCE ON HIM. THERE WERE NO WITNESSES. 24:19 THE ONLY ONE WHO KNEW WAS THE FATHER. THE FATHER WAS A 24:24 CHRISTIAN - LOVED HIS SON - HE HAD TO MAKE A DECISION. 24:28 HE KNEW HE'D GET THE DEATH PENALTY. 24:30 AND HE SAID, 'DO I PUT THE LAW ABOVE THE LOVE FOR MY SON?' 24:38 AND HE REALIZED THERE IS NO LOVE IF THERE ISN'T LAW. 24:42 AND WHAT ABOUT THE PARENTS THAT LOST THEIR CHILDREN? 24:45 AND HE SAID, 'SON, YOU KNOW WHAT I HAVE TO DO.' THE PRIMARY 24:50 WITNESS DURING THAT TRIAL WAS JOHN COOK, WITNESSING AGAINST 24:55 HIS SON THAT HE DESPERATELY LOVED. AND - 2013 - ANDREW WAS 25:01 EXECUTED FOR HIS MURDERS. 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